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<p>[QUOTE="rbf, post: 65181, member: 3588"]<b>Marking coins? bad idea.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no idea why anyone would go through the trouble to mark all their searched halves, unless they're doing some type of experiment/research. Anyone worried about getting their own halves back again should simply return the coins to a different bank from the place they originally got them from, preferably a bank which uses a different armored car/ coin wrapping service. Problem solved. Perhaps the biggest reason not to mark your coins is because of the old saying, one man's junk is another man's treasure. I'd be VERY upset to find a bunch of otherwise nice XF/AU 1978, 1982, or 1986 clads that someone carelessly ruined with a marker or something. I LOVE nice better-date clads, and would take any of those over a common, boring 40% silver-clad any day.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rbf, post: 65181, member: 3588"][b]Marking coins? bad idea.[/b] I have no idea why anyone would go through the trouble to mark all their searched halves, unless they're doing some type of experiment/research. Anyone worried about getting their own halves back again should simply return the coins to a different bank from the place they originally got them from, preferably a bank which uses a different armored car/ coin wrapping service. Problem solved. Perhaps the biggest reason not to mark your coins is because of the old saying, one man's junk is another man's treasure. I'd be VERY upset to find a bunch of otherwise nice XF/AU 1978, 1982, or 1986 clads that someone carelessly ruined with a marker or something. I LOVE nice better-date clads, and would take any of those over a common, boring 40% silver-clad any day.[/QUOTE]
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